The agency said the KLA's venture into broadcasting was an attempt to spread "terrorism" into the world media. Tanjug raised questions as to who was funding the operation.

The text of the report, as published on Monday 4th January, follows:

"Albanian state television is probably the only media house in the world that has become an official organ of terrorists, carrying statements by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army promoting their separatist goals, such as the independence of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province - which are strongly condemned by the international community.

The Albanian TV late on Sunday broadcast a statement by the alleged headquarters of ethnic Albanian terrorists that the so-called KLA was founding a news agency and radio station.

It is evidently not enough to the terrorists that Albanian state television is their official media.

They have already given bombastic names to their agency and radio station which clearly demonstrate their intention - to spread the fallacy about some allegedly already existent Albanian state in the territory of this southern Serbian province.

The news agency has been named `Kosova Press' and the radio station `Kosovo e Lire', or `Free Kosovo'.

News of the setting up of the agency and radio station has attracted the attention of world media, and the US news agency Associated Press concluded that Kosovo Albanian terrorists did this `in a move to reinforce their independent image' and to distance `the rebels further from moderate Albanian leaders'.

Some media wonder how the terrorists plan to inaugurate a radio station when they still have no frequency, and others ask where they got the finance.

Ethnic Albanian separatists have been long present on the world media stage.

Their representative offices in western Europe regularly distribute information bulletins and send them out to numerous addresses, from media to individuals.

In this, they do not hesitate to use impermissible means, such as is the case at the Geneva UN Headquarters, where they occasionally smuggle in their bulletins and distribute them to countless correspondents and diplomats.

Ethnic Albanian terrorists are now evidently intent on expanding their terrorist activities from the field to the media.

They have practically already realised part of grossly ignoring international norms and the United Nations Charter.

It is really hard to find a similar example of such activities by any other country in the world in more recent history" .